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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 14-24 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	August 2019
Genre:	Religion
ISBN:	9780226639383
EAN-Code:	9780226639383
Verlag:	The University of Chicago Press
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Serie:	Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
Dimensionen:	H 158 mm / B 237 mm / D 14 mm
Gewicht:	424 gr
Seiten:	240
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Inhalt:

Vipassana Meditation and the Embodiment of the Self. Western society has never been more interested in interiority. Indeed, it seems more and more people are deliberately looking inwardtoward the mind, the body, or both. Michal Pagiss Inward focuses on one increasingly popular channel for the introverted gaze vipassana meditation, which has spread from Burma to over forty countries and counting. Pagis turns our attention not only to the practice of vipassana but to the communities that have sprung up around it, lacing her account with vivid anecdotes and personal stories. Inward is also a social history of the westward diffusion of Eastern